Rutherford Decker

Rutherford Losey Decker (May 17, 1904 – September 1972) was an United States politician, a longtime member and a Presidential nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960, and the President of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1946 to 1948.^[1]

Decker was born in Elmira, New York.^[2] He was a missionary at the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and preached in Fort Morgan, Colorado and in Denver, Colorado.^[2] He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, until he retired in the 1960s.^[2]^[3]

A lifelong resident of Missouri, he was nominated for President with party chairman Earle Harold Munn as his running-mate.

Decker and Munn finished fifth with 46,203 (0.07%) votes (and no one electoral vote). Munn succeeded Decker as a presidential nominee in 1964. They appeared on ballots in 11 states: Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana and Montana. Decker and Munn never received over 1% of the vote in any of these states.

Electoral history

United States presidential election, 1960

John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 34,226,731 (49.72%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried)
Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) - 34,108,157 (49.55%) and 219 electoral votes (26 states carried)
Harry Byrd/Strom Thurmond/Barry Goldwater (ID) - 15 electoral votes (unpledged electors from Mississippi, half of unpledged electors from Alabama and faithless elector from Oklahoma; Thurmond won 14 electoral votes for V.P., Goldwater one. Byrd all 15 for President)
Eric Hass/Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) - 47,522 (0.07%)
Rutherford Decker/Earle Harold Munn (Prohibition) - 46,203 (0.07%)
Orval E. Faubus/John G. Crommelin (National States' Rights Party) - 44,984 (0.07%)

References

Preceded by Leslie Roy Marston	President of the National Association of Evangelicals 1946–1948	Succeeded by Stephen W. Paine

Party political offices
Preceded by Enoch A. Holtwick	Prohibition Party Presidential nominee 1960 (lost)	Succeeded by Earle Harold Munn

Presidents of the National Association of Evangelicals

Ockenga Marston Decker Paine Fowler Rees Savage Petticord Mekeel Zimmerman Cook Gerig Jones Olson Armerding Boyd Toms Bailey Lundquist Williams Gay McIntyre Hughes White Johnson Argue Mannoia Anderson Haggard Anderson

United States Prohibition Party Presidential nominees

Black Smith Dow St. John Fisk Bidwell Levering Bentley Woolley Caffery Emerson Swallow Chafin Hanly Watking Faris Varney Hoover Upshaw Colvin Babson Watson Hamblen Holtwick Decker Munn Budar Dodge Amondson Fellure Hedges

United States presidential election, 1960

Democratic Party

Convention
Primaries

Nominee: John F. Kennedy

VP nominee: Lyndon B. Johnson

Candidates: Ross Barnett; Pat Brown; Michael DiSalle; Paul C. Fisher; Hubert Humphrey; Lyndon B. Johnson; George H. McLain; Robert B. Meyner; Wayne Morse; Albert S. Porter; Adlai Stevenson; George Smathers; Stuart Symington

Republican Party

Convention
Primaries

Nominee: Richard Nixon

VP nominee: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Candidates: Barry Goldwater; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; James M. Lloyd; Nelson Rockefeller

Third party and independent candidates

American Vegetarian Party	Nominee Symon Gould

National States' Rights Party	Nominee Orval Faubus VP nominee J. B. Stoner

Prohibition Party	Nominee Rutherford Decker VP nominee E. Harold Munn

Socialist Labor Party	Nominee Eric Hass VP nominee Georgia Cozzini

Socialist Workers Party	Nominee Farrell Dobbs VP nominee Myra Tanner Weiss

Independents and other candidates	Harry F. Byrd Merritt B. Curtis Lar Daly George Lincoln Rockwell Charles L. Sullivan

Other 1960 elections: House
Senate

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